{"id":7854,"date":"2013-08-13T09:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2016-12-01T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T18:26:59","slug":"students-and-professors-are-better-together-for-undergraduate-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/students-and-professors-are-better-together-for-undergraduate-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Students and Professors are &#8216;Better Together&#8217; for Undergraduate Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer 2013 edition of the Pegasus features Dr. Costas Efthimiou (Physics) and Dr. Steven Berman (Psychology) &#8211; College of Sciences professors working in collaboration with their students to produce amazing results in undergraduate research.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Efthimiou worked on a research project with Christopher Frye involving\u00a0string theory and how it relates to Einstein&#8217;s theory of general relativity\u00a0 and the effects on phenomena in our own solar system.\u00a0 This research helped lead Christopher to become a 2012 Barry M. 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